The Company of Heaven
Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell
Winner or 2010 Iowa Prize
Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Tinkers"
"Reading The Company of Heaven is like happening on a book of Psalms transcribed from some secret, fantastic, harrowed heart, somehow mineralized into language and somehow preserved for us to read. "
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Edwidge Danticat - Haitian-American Novelist and McArthur Genius Grant winner
"Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell's The Company of Heaven heralds the fiction debut of a brilliant and insightful storyteller. With the sensitivities of the poet and visual artist that she is, Phipps-Kettlewell brings us these lyrical, funny, quirky and memorable stories from the Haiti of both near and far. A book not to be missed, The Company of Heaven takes us both to Heaven and hell, and many places in between, but always with innovation, honesty and grace."
"Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell's The Company of Heaven heralds the fiction debut of a brilliant and insightful storyteller. With the sensitivities of the poet and visual artist that she is, Phipps-Kettlewell brings us these lyrical, funny, quirky and memorable stories from the Haiti of both near and far. A book not to be missed, The Company of Heaven takes us both to Heaven and hell, and many places in between, but always with innovation, honesty and grace."
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Scholar, Author, Director of the W.E. B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University
"These are beautiful, richly textured stories; “painterly” is the word that describes them best. What might be unbearable sadness after the devastation so recently suffered by Haiti becomes, in Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell’s hands, a testament of hope and resilience, of spirit and celebration. Like the people they are about, these stories will last."
"These are beautiful, richly textured stories; “painterly” is the word that describes them best. What might be unbearable sadness after the devastation so recently suffered by Haiti becomes, in Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell’s hands, a testament of hope and resilience, of spirit and celebration. Like the people they are about, these stories will last."
The Company of Heaven
Available in Bookstores
October 1st, 2010!
